The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


legged kitten
IT is estimated that $1,000 trees have been
planted in Nebraska by female hands during the
past three years.
The running expenses of the village OF Es-
| feline Oak, for the last year were S4S, the
chief item being the marshal's salary $40.
AN average of about 15e gallons of water per
| day for every resident is supplied Washington.
and Of this amount it is stated onehaf is
wasted
JAMES WEIGH, of Richie county, West Vir-
gnia, cut down hollow maple tree the other
| day from which ran twenty-seven tul-grown
| squirrels
THE little oldtown of Paris, Me-, has furnished
one Vice President of the United States two
United States Senators. four Governors of
| Maine and eight Congressman.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, boasts a 1SO,000candle
electric light which throws its rays fifty miles
| out to sea. One of 24 900 candles, at San Jose,
Cal. is the biggest in this country.
| EMIGRANTs are now Hooking to the Pacific
| Northwest at the rate of 1000 month mostly
| from Kansas and Iowa They settle chiefly in
Eastern Oregon and Washington Territory.
A DOG was about to attack monkey belong
ing TO an organ grinder. AS the dog rushed on
the monkey lifted his hat and gracefully saluted,
when the dogs head and tail dropped and he
| Sneaked away.
AN owl and SNAKE both dead were found by
Edward Schwartz, of ella Station. Arr. The
| snake was tightly entwined around the neck and
! left wing of the owl the latter having the tail
of the snake in its beak.
JENNIE SULLIVAN, of Fonda, N. Y, is still suf
| fering severely from the hiccoughs, with which
she was attacked more than three months ago
She subsists entirely upon milk and broth, and
is said to be dying by inches"
THE troops who followed the raiding Apaches
| through the mountains of Southern Arizona re-
| Gently say that in crossing the San Pedro Valley
| the hOSties Travelled nearly fifteen miles on tip
| toe to hide the trail. but the Indian scout who
accompanied the soldiers held the track just the
| same.
SKY terrier belonging to a London gentle
man says the Field is caring for eight little
| chickens They occupy basket and the chick
ems nestle in the dogs long hair and seem COM
| Portable. They follow the dog about and the
brute strives to give them all the personal care
| possible.
| NEARLY all the black-headed pins in the mar
ket are made from needles which are broken in
| the factories in testing the eyes. Any one who
| has handled the black headed pins has probably
| noticed their remarkable sharpness as compared
| with the ordinary white pins sold in the mar
| ket. This is the expanation-that they are old
| needles.
THE loss of life in India from man-eating IT.
gers was appalling last year, and some study of
| the fierce beast has lately been made by Eng
lish officers. Tigers, it appears. do not attack
| hnman brings until they become very large and
| old and unable to run down animals that are
| fleet of foot. One of these creatures is known
to have killed 1O8 persons in the course of three
| years. Another caused thirteen villages to be
| deserted. A third is credited with Killing 127
| travellers on public road.
COMING from California in a train recently
were number of men who, at the suggestion of
| the porter, got up base ball pool on which
| clubs could win the four league games. It was
| S. guess. The porter, too went in the pool.
| When they got a paper the next day they found
| that but one man had guessed correctly and he
| was the porter. He scooped in the $40 with a
| smile. When the guesseS were made it was 3
| O'Clock in the afternoon out there, but o'clock
in the Eastern cities. The porter had got out at
small town and got the results By telegraph.
| A cENTENARIAN BEeGARMAN, Pierre Drouin by
| name, who has for many years been Partisan
curiosity, was unceremOniously arrested a day
| or two ago outside the Madeleine by merciless
policeman and marched of, to prison For up
ward of forty years he amused the nurses the
| babies and the small boys by standing in the
| Place Vauban and allowing tame white rats to
| run all over him, sometimes making them climb
| up his long white beard until they reached his
| mouth, where they found a bit of meat or some
| other luxury protruding between their master s
teeth.
IT is authoritatively stated in Nashville Tenn.
that quantities of the finest character of litho-
graphing stone have been discovered in that
| State and some OF it placed quietly on the mar
| ket in New York City. The exact point where
| the discovery was made has not been made
| public, but gentleman well informed says that
it can be placed ON sale in Nashville at cost of
| forty cents per 100 pounds. Superior qualities
| of stone, such as this is described to be- ought
| to fetch at retail from six to twenty-eight
| cents per pound, according to the degrees OF
| hneneSS.
ICEBERGS are quite numerous this summer ir
the path of European steamers, according &c
the reports sent the photographic office from
the captains of various vessels Since June
| there have been sighted as many as thirty-three
| bergs. Capt Baker, of the Dutch steamer
| Scholter, saw one 300 feet high, at a distance OF
| seventeen miles, and passed within a mile and q
| half of it. Capt. Brockelman, of the Adolf
| saw one $40 feet high, with two others 100 feet
| high, on succeeding days. Capt. Campbell OF
| the English ship st. Rovans berg two
| miles long and 200 feet high on June 16 in lati
| tude 40, longitude 4So. Fourteen apparently
| new derelicts are reported this month
DR.. E. H. BARLEY, chemist to the Brooklyn
Health Department, has recently made some
discoveries which it will not be pleasant for beer
| drinkers TO contemplate. His examinations OF
| different kinds of bottled beer, including some
of the Western beers, show that they contain
| Salicylic acid. The Medical Record states that
| the amount of this acid required to preserve
beer is about twelve or fifteen grains per gallon
and it adds that 'salicylic acid, if taken contin
uously, tends to injure digestion and irritate the
| kidneys" The employment of this drug in the
| preservation of different articles of food aud
| drink has increased much in Paris that the
| French government has already twice taken
| action in the matter.
IT is a remarkable fact, but none the less
worthy of record that Queen Henrietta Of Bel
GUM is popular everywhere but in the country
| of her adoption In Austria, while staying
! under the roof of her parents, the Emperor and
/ Empress the little archduchesS was loved by
| every one, and even to this day her memory is
| held in deep affection. In England, also her
| Majesty is much esteemed, but in Belgium IL is
| quite the exception to find any one who has a
! good word to say for her. Some state the reason
| for this is her leaning toward an open encour-
agement of the Jesuts, and, as the Queen affects
| complete contempt of public opinion her feel
ings for the Papists have never been disguised in
seen in the town of Brussels itself her daily ex-
| cursions in her pony carriage, drawn by six
| cream colored animals. which she drives herself
| being confined TO the Bots de Bouogne and
! IXees. the suburbs of Brussels, or 10 the beau
/ tiful grounds surrounding the summer palace of
| Laelen. The Queen is rather short. not by any
| means Unlocking, and dresses in the painest,
| some say the shabbieet manner possible. Like
| her cousin, the Empress of Austria, her Majesty
! is passionatey devoted to horses and passes
| most of her time in her stables which are inva-
| riaby kept 70 the pink Of perfection in point of
! cleanliness and order.
The renegade Queen-or ex-Queen-of Servia
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